Chapter 50: A First Exploration of Sun Jiaping

Qingshi and the other three were talking, and the captain came over and said that he had arrived, and pointed forward and said that it was Sunjiaping, where the Sun family lived.

Qingshi looked around, only to see about 20 miles away in front of it, there is a large area of house buildings, this building is a compact square as a whole, the length and width are more than two miles, the city wall is low, but there is a wide and straight moat to surround it, the river also divides several tributaries, cut into Sunjiaping, criss-cross, and divides the whole Sunjiaping into squares of similar size.

Sunjiaping is flat on three sides in the north, south and east, the main gate is open in the east, there is a small hill a few miles behind the west, and there is also a small building on the top of the hill.

However, the water of the moat is drawn from a large river in the south, first to a large circular pond under the hill, and then to flow into Sunjiaping, and finally from the southeast corner of the ping.

The spacecraft slowed down and slowly flew towards Sunjiaping, heading from east to west towards its main entrance. Qingshi stood at the bow of the ship to observe, first ordered the spacecraft to descend to a height of fifty zhang, and then circled around the entire Sunjiaping including the hill behind Ping, and finally the spacecraft came to the main gate and hovered more than five zhang above the ground.

Everyone observed the entire Sunjiaping, the houses in Sunjiaping were neat and the roads were like that, but no one and living things could be seen, and the whole Pingping was dead silent.

After the boat was parked, everyone did not get off the boat, only to see four people rushing from the east, and after a while they came to the bottom of the boat, and one of them shouted loudly: "The Detective Department of the Criminal Department of the Great Tianlong Country has inspected Wan Jin and Wu Zheng, the commander of the local army of this government, and asked to see Lord Xiang and the adults of Tianlong Academy." ”

"Come on." Xiang An said.

The four of them immediately jumped onto the boat. Wan Jinyi was a short and fat middle-aged man, and after getting on the boat, he first saluted Xiang An, and Xiang An did not return the salute, but only signaled to invite Zheng Fangyi Qingshi and Teng Shouqian to step forward.

Wan Jinyi hurriedly beckoned the three people behind him to come forward and introduced them to everyone one by one, one was his assistant, and the other two were the positive and negative commanders of the local army of the three surrounding prefectures such as the Hatoyama State stationed in Jianming Mansion.

Xiang An also introduced Zheng Fangyi Qingshi and Teng Shouqian to a few people, and then said to a few people: "These are all special envoys assigned by the imperial court and Tianlong Academy to deal with the case, Lord Zheng Fangyi is fully responsible, if you have anything to report, just tell Lord Zheng directly." ”

The commander immediately stepped forward and saluted, saying that he had been besieging Sunjiaping for a few days, and he was just waiting for all the officials to come, and he asked Lord Zheng for instructions on how to deal with it.

Zheng Fangyi and the other three are only students of Tianlong Academy, and they have no official position, this time they came out to carry out the task, and the empire arranged a temporary vacant post for them to facilitate their actions, although it was a fictitious position, and the level was not very high, but it was a Qin cha, so Wan Jinyi and the others did not dare to slack off.

Zheng Fangyi asked, "Can someone in the Sun family abscond?" ”

"No," the commander Wu Zheng replied categorically, "Xia Guan has already surrounded Sun Jiaping on the orders of the Lord of the Huang Mansion, and absolutely no one has escaped. ”

Zheng Fangyi said in his heart that if they have a master who sneaks away, how can you find out, but this kind of inquiry is just a procedure, and it is inevitable that Commander Wu will answer like this.

"Lord Huang?" Qingshi was puzzled, "Hasn't the Lord of the Huang Mansion been dismissed?" ”

"It's that the lower officials didn't make it clear," Wu Zheng hurriedly said, "The Huang Mansion Master I'm talking about is the newly appointed Huang Qian Mansion Master, not the previous Huang Yan Mansion Master." ”

"Also surnamed Huang?" Qingshi asked, "Is there anything to do with the two Huang Mansion Masters before and after?" ”

"Yes, it matters," Wu Zheng replied, "The Lord of the Yellow Submarine Mansion is Huang Yan's clan brother. ”

"A family?" Qingshi thought for a moment and then asked, "May I ask if the position of the head of your country is a liuguan or a local official?" ”

"He is both a rogue official and a local official." Wu Zheng replied.

"Make it clear." Xiang An frowned.

"Yes, yes," Wu Zheng hurriedly said, "According to the law of the country, the position of the head of the mansion is a liuguan, appointed by the imperial court, and served for a term of ten years, but the big power families in various places often like to seek themselves a position as the head of the county of their own clan, and the court also acquiesces, so there is a situation where the whole family lives in the mansion, which is not only the head of the local indigenous family, but also the situation that the clansman becomes the head of the mansion, so the liuguan also becomes a local official." For example, the Huang family of my Jianming Mansion was originally the first family of my house, and the position of the head of the house was also held by the Huang family, and he was replaced every ten years, and he was replaced by the Huang family. ”

"You said that the Huang family was originally the first family of Jianming Mansion," Qingshi still asked quietly, "Could it be that it is not now?" ”

"That's right," Wu Zheng said, "Six years ago, the Sun family rose, and in just three years, its power surpassed that of the Huang family. However, this time the Sun family is going to be finished. ”

Qingshi and Zheng Fangyi exchanged glances with An, and they both secretly thought that the Huang family had a motive to frame the Sun family. But the two don't say anything, and they know each other.

"In this way, the relationship between the Huang family and the Sun family is very good?" Qingshi continued to ask.

"Yes," Wu Zheng replied, "Sun Ba, the current head of the Sun family, was once a student of Huang Shiren, the current head of the Huang family. ”

"Huang Shiren?" Qingshi couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Everyone was puzzled, and Wu Zheng was puzzled, "This ...... Could it be that there is something wrong with the name Huang Shiren. ”

"No, no, good name." Qingshi couldn't help but smile and said, "You go on." ”

"Oh," Wu Zheng continued, "When Brother Sun Xiong and Sun Ba came back, they quickly seized the sphere of influence of the other Li family, the Yuan family, and other families, but they were very respectful to the Huang family, and even gave a lot of benefits to the Huang family, so the relationship between the two families is excellent." ”

"Now that the new lord has taken office, why don't you come to see us?" Qingshi continued to ask.

"The lord of the Yellow Submarine Mansion is arranging the containment work on all sides, for fear of leaking the Sun family, so he has no time to get out, he said that once the arrangement is completed, he will naturally come to meet the officials." Wu Zheng replied.

Qingshi nodded and asked no more questions.

Zheng Fangyi said to Wan Jinyi; "In the case of the Sun family's killing of the Jiang family, are you responsible for the investigation, collection of materials and reporting?"

"It was the four subordinates who led him to collect and report it together." Wan Jinyi said.

"Your report says that Jiang Suhe did not go directly to the Sun family, but first asked Huang Yan to take care of his family according to national regulations, but some people said that Jiang Suhe first went directly to the Sun family to ask for benefits, and then the Huang Mansion Lord was in the middle to reconcile, is your report wrong?"

"Absolutely!" Wan Jinyi and his assistant glanced at each other, and then replied categorically in unison, looking very resolute.

"Well, let's talk about the strength of the Sun family." Zheng Fangyi said.

"Yes." Wan Jinyi replied. He had already figured out the strength of the Sun family, and he would report it one by one at the moment. The total population of this Sunjiaping is more than 16,000, of which the Sun family is about 2,500, and the entire Sun family and other vassal families living in Sunjiaping have more than 300 monks.

In terms of strength, there are more than ten monks in the Sun family's condensing qi realm cultivation and above, and the highest cultivation is Sun Xiong and Sun Ba, both of whom have reached the low level of the Yuan Dan realm.

There should be two or three elders in his family who have reached the peak of the ninth stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, but these elders can't break through the Yuan Dan Realm, and they are already old and have a short lifespan.

The original head of the family, Sun Xiong, has also been beheaded to death by Jiang Suhe, so the combat power should be the first of the current head of the family, Sun Ba.

Among Qingshi's group, Xiang An and Zheng Fangyi were already masters of the Yuan Dan Realm, and the other eleven people, except for Qingshi, were all high-level cultivators in the Qi Condensation Realm.

In terms of combat power, although Sun Ba is already in the Yuan Dan Realm, he, the number one master of the Sun family, may not even be able to beat Xiao Ji Yin Yuhuang and Teng Shouqian, these ordinary Yuan Dan Realm cultivators on the rivers and lakes basically rely on long-term cultivation and accumulation to break through to the Yuan Dan Realm, and compared with these geniuses of Tianlong Academy, they are naturally far behind.

It's like Sun Xiong, although he is also a cultivator in the Yuan Dan Realm, but he was killed by Jiang Suhe in the Condensation Qi Realm. Therefore, the Sun family can really only rely on the magic circle that his family has operated for hundreds of years.

Zheng Fangyi asked a few more words, but there was no gain. said at the moment: "Since the Sun family doesn't take the initiative to surrender, then let's do it directly." After speaking, several people looked at Qingshi together. Qingshi is a formation mage, and how to break the formation is naturally up to his arrangement.

Qingshi said: "I took a general look at the Sun family's defensive array, it is indeed not good, and it is not advisable to break the formation with force, so the only way to destroy the energy source of its array is the most feasible." I'm going to test it, Senior Brother Zheng, you can help me protect the Fa. ”

After speaking, Qingshi jumped off the spaceship and headed towards the main gate of Sun's house.

Zheng Fangyi didn't dare to be careless, and took Xiao Ji and Yin Yuhuang to follow behind Qingshi.

Bluestone comes to the moat outside the direction of the main gate of Sunjiaping, the river is about ten zhang wide, a wide stone arch bridge is erected on the river, the other side of the stone bridge is the city wall, there is a tall stone gatehouse, this is the main entrance passage of Sunjiaping.

Qingshi smiled at Zheng Fangyi and said, "I haven't seen President Zheng make a move, why don't you show your hand?" As he spoke, he said to the stone gatehouse.

Zheng Fangyi didn't speak, with a wave of his hand, a wide long sword appeared in his hand, Zheng Fangyi took a step forward, exhaled, and the long sword opened up in front of him. I saw a faintly visible sword qi flying towards the stone gatehouse more than ten zhang away.

As soon as the sword qi flew over the moat, it suddenly hit an invisible wall, only to see a transparent curtain wall suddenly appear in the originally empty air, and the sword qi hit the curtain wall, cutting out a large crack, and the crack spread in all directions with the sword qi impact as the center, causing a ripple like a ripple on the curtain wall.

Then, the cracks slowly disappeared, the ripples gradually calmed down, and the curtain wall was free of energy disturbances, and the original calm was restored and seemed to disappear.

"Awesome!" Qingshi praised with a smile, "Senior Brother Zheng's sword qi is even more powerful than I imagined, it seems to be stronger than Seventh Brother Duan." This Sun family's defensive array is not as strong as I imagined, why don't you cut two more swords and directly break the formation with force? ”

Zheng Fangyi knew that it was impossible for him to break the formation with his strength, so he put away his sword and said to Qingshi: "Don't rely on your mouth, you can tell me how to break the formation." ”

Qingshi pondered for a while and said, "I'll set up a formation to see the situation inside." As he spoke, Qingshi began to wave his hand casually, and with each swing, a golden bamboo stick more than a foot long flew out and was suspended in the air.

Yin Yuhuang looked at the bluestone array and couldn't help asking, "Isn't the situation inside clear?" ”

Qingshi didn't answer, just continued to set up the formation, but after a few breaths, Qingshi had already thrown out eighteen golden bamboo sticks, forming a large ring with a diameter of about one zhang in the air.

These bamboo sticks are the set of array sticks obtained from Yunlu, which are made of the bones of the seventh-level spirit beast golden slash and imitate them into bamboo pieces. It's the first time I've used it for Bluestone.

After arranging, Qingshi let out a low shout: up.

I saw that these bamboo sticks began to emit golden light, and these lights flickered and then disappeared, and then several people saw a different scene from the circular space composed of these array sticks.

This circle is like a window, through this window to see the opposite side of the Sunjiaping, its perspective is in the air, not blocked by the city wall, and the content of the view is different from the outside of the window hole.

Looking at Sunjiaping from the outside, the houses are like neat roads but there are no trees and people, but the Sunjiaping seen through this window is full of trees and crowds.

Yin Yuhuang was taken aback, and at a glance he saw at least hundreds of people waiting behind the arrow stacks on the city wall, one by one from the hiding place nervously peeking in his direction.

Xiao Ji laughed and said, "I said that no one can see it, but it turns out that he made a phantom array, pretending to be a ghost." ”

The people of Sunjiaping seemed to find that their phantom array did not work, and they saw that a burst of white fog slowly rose in the entire Sunjiaping, and soon, the entire Sunjiaping was completely wrapped in a large white fog, but this time it was the same white from the inside and outside of the window.

Qingshi put away the stick and said to a few people, and the four of them immediately returned to the boat.

After coming back, Qingshi said to Zheng Fangyi to An Teng Shouqian: "How to arrange it next, I will arrange it, okay?" ”

All three of them said that this is exactly how it should be. Qingshi gathered everyone to explain the situation he analyzed and the plan of how to break the formation to everyone one by one.

Qingshi judged that Sunjiaping's defensive array was divided into two parts, one was a large array with Sunjiaping as the center and water as the medium of the array; One is a circle of civil engineering medium centered on the hill behind Sunjiaping.

The two circles should be able to defend independently or support each other, which means that the energy sources of the two circles can be connected to each other.

From the topography, there is a flat river all around here, but there is a hill behind Sunjiaping, which shows that there is likely to be a natural spiritual vein under this hill, and this spiritual vein should be the energy source of the two magic circles, of course, there must be an auxiliary energy source in Sunjiaping, but it must be artificial, and it will not be like a natural spiritual vein that can continuously gather the aura of heaven and earth.

The plan to break the formation is divided into several steps, one is to cut off the leyline connection between the hill and Sunjiaping, and the other is to find a way to break the hill, and then use the underground spiritual veins of the hill to attack and consume Sunjiaping after the hill is taken, until the energy source of Sunjiaping's magic circle is exhausted, and then it will naturally be self-defeating.

Seeing that everyone had no objection to the formation breaking plan, Qingshi further said the specific plan of how to break through the hill, and everyone was amazed and admired by the subtlety of his plan, and they all asked Qingshi to quickly lead everyone to action.